Monta Vista hosted a three-way meet at Monta Vista on March 22, here at Monta Vista. Three-way meets are fun for the athletes as there is a little more excitement, and the increased competition can often lead to some good performances.…
Wrap your mind around this: Monta Vista Track and Field won medals in every relay race we entered! Yep that is right..let’s review. Frosh-Soph Girls’ Sprint Medley: Check! Even after dropping the baton on the first handoff, Lauren had the…
The MVTF16 league season got started with our dual meet at Saratoga on March 10. While the weather threatened, and we did see some rain, the team competed hard and earned a lot of success! Dual meets kick off with…
El Niño, could you have waited six hours? Monta Vista got in a soggy season opener–well, some of us did. The Willow Glen Invitational, usually a solid meet to start the season, turned into a rainy mess by the end…
Is it possible that the first day of the year a starter’s gun goes off is the official start of summer? Well, maybe not. After all, indoor track has been going on in the frozen Northeast for months! But still…for…
As most of you know, your coach still trains and competes in road races, including marathons. I’ve told you about my running group that meets at 5:30am on Tuesdays and Thursdays, as well as Saturdays (I am usually with MVXC or…
MVTF16 has logged our first week of training! We had a really good week of training with plenty of strides, core work and knocking some dust off the medicine balls. This looks like a really fine group of athletes and…
The 2016 Track and Field on-line gear store is now up and running for orders! Here is what is waiting for you… Training Shirts: You can order short sleeve technical training shirts, in either men’s or women’s styles. This…
I cannot promise you that it will be easy. I can promise it will be worth it. It was so fun for your coach to see a packed classroom of athletes last Friday! It’s very exciting to start thinking about a great track…
Monta Vista’s Brent Mogensen was selected to the All-Mercury-News Cross Country Team for 2015! The Mercury-News team is a significant honor for high school athletes in all sports. Brent had a great senior year. At CCS finals, Brent’s 15:42 clocking on…
“It’s important to know that at the end of the day it’s not the medals you remember. What you remember is the process — what you learn about yourself by challenging yourself, the experiences you share with other people, the…
Coach Flatow after the Turkey Trot with two illustrious MVXC alumni, Sunny Shan and Bridget Gottlieb–between them, they have NCAA All-American awards, All-Conference Awards (NEWMAC, Centennial and Seven Sisters) to go with a CCS Championship for MVXC! Quite a few…